Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capp loves them, each and every one. Which is not to say that they please him; they reduce him to a frenzy of rage and exasperation-punctuated with hoots of laughter. In moments of gloom he is certain that this ubiquitous medley is on the brink of ruining 1) the world in general and 2) Al Capp in particular. In such moods his conversation often implies that he is a sort of modern General Custer, facing hordes of murderous madmen and cut off from civilization with no weapon more deadly than India...
Surgeon Gary Grant, vacationing with his wife (Paula Raymond) in a Latin American country on the brink of revolution, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of the ailing dictator (well played by José Ferrer) who is dying of a brain tumor. While Dr. Grant ponders whether to operate, revolutionists urge him to let the scalpel slip, and Ferrer offers some glib justifications of dictatorship...
Dominating the parade, which included classes ranging up from 1900, was 1925, which scorned frills to appear with white caps and a band. At the other extreme was the Class of 47, with a Brink's truck and signs reading "22 years...
Perfectly nice guys who would never steal automobiles, kidnap small children, or rob Brink's have been caught between the jagged edges of this difference of opinion. If they had paused to ruminate before filching books from Lamont or Widener shelves, it might have occurred to them that the University must take more than a dim view of this sort of activity. It's not just the attrition that threatens to topple the University Library from its position among the most book filled in the world; officials in University Hall must fight encroachment of that doubtful ethic underlying book appropriation...
...Angeles' 4,200-member First Congregational Church (largest Congregational church in the U.S.) organized a fight against the council's ruling. As a test, the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. filed suit, and for 23 court days and 3,000 pages of testimony Justice Stein brink listened to the subdued wrangling of ministerial witnesses...